Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.